She woke up with a huge headache and swore to herself not to drink ever again. She looked at herself in the mirror and found her eyes looking as red and swollen as ever and in a new pair of comfortable sleeping wear – that was when she remembered about what happened last night.

“Oh god.” She mumbled to herself when she remembered how drunk she was, meeting Chen and him sending her home and how shocked Yixing was when she saw him with Chen. At the thought of Yixing, only then she noticed that Yixing was nowhere to be found for the millionth time. She remembered that he was there when she fell asleep but why was she expecting him to be there for her when lately, he hasn’t been?

She plugged her phone on the charger and when she opened it, her phone started buzzing like crazy from the messages that only came. The messages were from Yixing’s parents, asking for the two of them to come over for dinner as one of Yixing’s aunt came back from America.

Yixing’s parents were the total opposite of hers. Her parents didn’t really care about her and they always made her feel like she was a big failure. Mei Lin had always been compared to better kids because her parents thought that it would made her want to achieve better – not that she was bad in her studies or anything but basically she has those type of parents that would pressure their child a lot and expect a lot from her. Her parents’ doings made her drift farther from them and even sitting alone with them in a room would be really awkward.

The Zhangs were the welcoming and loving family that she always dreamed of. From the very first day that Yixing brought her to meet her family until this day, they never failed to feel her welcomed and loved not as just Yixing’s fiancée but also as their family.

She sighed and suddenly thought that maybe Yixing didn’t pick up his phone so that was why his parents contacted her instead. Where on earth could he be? Has he been sleeping out in another girl’s house again? She shook her head disappointedly and in disbelief at the thought.

She dialed his phone number and after a few rings, he answered with his morning voice.

“Where are you?”

“I… uhm in my friend’s house.”

“I assume you haven’t read your parents’ messages yet. They are asking for us for dinner. Your aunt just came back from America.”

“Alright. I’ll go home now.”

Yeah, sure. Friend’s house. She sighed and went to the bathroom to refresh herself and hoped that the waters would wash away her feelings too.

An hour later, Yixing came home in a sober mode and in his usual self – calm and composed. He opened the bedroom door to look for her and he found her looking through her dresses to choose what she would wear later.

He made his arrival noticeable but Mei Lin didn’t look at him. He